Monday digest

Rachel Marie Stone reviews David Rakoff: "It's easy to write off Rakoff's novel in verse as a cliché. But he was master enough of his craft that his rhymes lapse into doggerel only when he chooses."

Carol Howard Merritt on the image of God and the little pink pill: "Where is the other faith narrative about birth control? Where are the voices that remind us that women are made in the image of God, whether they are joined with a man or not?"